Posts Tagged ‘water pollution’

Keeper Groups Criticize Proposed Weakening of Recreational Water Quality Standards

Riverkeeper and partner Waterkeeper Alliance organizations in the region submitted comments to the EPA expressing extreme concern about the agency’s draft Recreational Water Quality Criteria (RWQC)… Read More

Fight Congress’ Attack on the Clean Water Act!

The Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act would roll back 40 years of Clean Water Act protection by stripping away EPA’s authority over our nation’s water quality standards. Before the C… Read More

When It Rains, It Pours … Raw Sewage

Riverkeeper Celebrates Enforcement Victories in Two Brooklyn Cases

Riverkeeper Celebrates Enforcement Victories in Brooklyn

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tina Posterli, 914-478-4501 x 239 Settlements received in long-standing Newtown Creek and Gowanus Canal Cases Ossining, NY – December 21, 2010 – Riverkeeper announced victo… Read More

Groups Congratulate Gov-Elect Cuomo, Send 1st Green Assignment: Rebuild NY’s Environmental Agencies & Restore Funding

* THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL * AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION IN NEW YORK * CATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER * CITIZENS CAMPAIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT * CLEAN NEW YORK * ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES OF NEW YORK * HUDSON RIVER… Read More

Feds challenged on cement rules

Riverkeeper Takes Action to Combat Improper Disposal of Toxic Cement Kiln Dust

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Tina Posterli, Riverkeeper, 914-478-4501 x 239 Files petition with EPA to force action on long-languishing rule Ossining, NY – October 13, 2010 – Riverkeeper has fi… Read More

Newtown Creek: Super-Polluted, and Now a Superfund Site

Groups sue state over runoff

Tell Gov. Hochul to block invasive species at the Erie and Champlain canals
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